ReportLab - PDF Processing with Python
ReportLab - PDF Processing with Python
About the Book
ReportLab is the primary package that most Python developers use for creating PDFs programmatically. This book will take a deep dive into this package and teaches you how to use this versatile library.
This book covers the following topics:
- Creating PDFs with ReportLab Canvas methods
- Using PLATYPUS in ReportLab for Dynamic Reports
- Turning Data into Reports with ReportLab
- Splitting / Joining PDFs with PyPDF2 and pdfrw
- Rotating Pages
- PDF Security
- Merging PDFs
- and much, much more!
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
- About the Author
- Conventions
- Setting up & Activating a Virtual Environment
- Dependencies
- Installation
- Configuration
- Reader Feedback
- Errata
- Code Examples
- Part I - The ReportLab Toolkit
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Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Reportlab
- The Canvas Object
- Canvas Methods
- Using Colors in ReportLab
- Adding a Photo
- The textobject
- Create a Page Break
- Canvas Orientation (Portrait vs. Landscape)
- Other methods
- A Simple Sample Application
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 2 - ReportLab and Fonts
- Unicode / UTF8 is the Default
- The Standard Fonts
- Other Type-1 Fonts
- TrueType Fonts
- Asian Fonts
- Switching Between Fonts
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 3 - Intro to Page Layout
- The Basics of PLATYPUS
- Changing Fixed Elements Across Pages
- Flowable Methods
- Frame Basics
- Templates
- Flowable Orientation (Portrait vs. Landscape)
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 4 - Paragraphs
- Paragraph Styles
- Paragraph Markup Tags
- The Outermost Markup Tags
- Using Intra-Paragraph Markup
- Working with Fonts
- Superscripts & Subscripts
- Inserting Inline Images
- Numbering Paragraphs / Sections
- Bullets
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 5 - Tables
- The Table’s Methods
- Applying Style to Your Table
- Cell Formatting
- Changing Fonts in Tables
- Line Commands
- Cell Alignment
- Alternating Background Colors
- Putting Paragraphs in Your Cells
- Adding Images to Cells
- Spanning
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 6 - Other Flowables
- Preformatted
- XPreformatted
- The Image Flowable
- The Spacer Flowable
- PageBreak
- CondPageBreak
- KeepTogether
- How to Add a Table of Contents
- SimpleIndex
- ListFlowable / ListItem
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 7 - Creating Your Own Flowables
- Creating a Line Flowable
- Creating a Bordered Textbox + Line Flowable
- Modifying a Pre-Existing Flowable
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 8 - Intro to Graphics and Charts
- What is a Drawing?
- ReportLab’s Renderers
- The Coordinate System
- A Simple Drawing
- Supported Outputs
- Verifying Attributes
- Naming Shapes
- Charts and Graphs
- Labels
- Axes
- Bar Charts
- Line Charts
- Line Plots
- Pie Charts
- Adding Titles and Legends
- Odds and Ends
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 9 - Other Graphics
- Shapes
- Widgets
- Bar Codes
- Wrapping Up
-
Chapter 10 - Creating Special Features in Your PDF
- File Annotations
- Bookmarks
- Page Transitions
- Encryption
- Interactive Forms
- Wrapping Up
- Part II - Tutorials and How-Tos
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Chapter 11 - Turning Data into PDFs
- Getting Started
- Creating the Base Template Class
- Refactoring the EOB Class
- Creating a Multipage Document
- Using Real Data
- Consuming XML
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 12 - Custom Headers and Footers
- A Naive Header
- Putting the Header on Every Page
- Adding a Logo
- Configurable Logos
- Adding Page Numbers
- Adding a Page Number of Total
- Headers + Footers
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 13 - Creating a PDF Library
- Accepting Different Data Formats
- Multipage Data Files
- Custom Stylesheets
- Configuring Your Application
- Adding a Graphical User Interface
- Finishing the User Interface
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 14 - The PyPDF2 Package
- Installation
- Extracting Metadata from PDFs
- Extracting Text from PDFs
- Splitting PDFs
- Merging Multiple PDFs Together
- Rotating Pages
- Overlaying / Watermarking Pages
- PDF Encryption
- Wrapping Up
-
Chapter 15 - The pdfrw Package
- Installation
- Extracting Information from PDF
- Splitting
- Merging / Concatenating
- Rotating
- Overlaying / Watermarking Pages
- Scaling
- Combining pdfrw and ReportLab
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 16 - Extracting and Exporting Data from PDFs
- Extracting Text with PDFMiner
- Exporting Text via pdf2txt.py
- Extracting Text with Slate
- Exporting Your Data
- Exporting to XML
- Exporting to JSON
- Exporting to CSV
- Extracting Images
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 17 - Filling in PDF Forms
- Creating a Simple Form
- Merging Overlays
- Other Ways to Fill Forms
- Using the pdfforms Package
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 18 - Converting Markup to PDF
- rst2pdf
- WeasyPrint
- Pandoc
- LaTeX
- Wrapping Up
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Chapter 19 - The PyFPDF Package
- Installation
- Basic Usage
- Working with Fonts
- Drawing
- Adding Images
- Multipage Documents
- Headers and Footers
- Tables
- Transform HTML to PDF
- Web2Py
- Templates
- Wrapping Up
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Appendix A - Adding SVG Files in ReportLab
- Dependencies
- Installation
- Usage
- Drawing on the Canvas
- Adding an SVG to a Flowable
- Scaling SVGs in ReportLab
- Using SVG Plots from matplotlib in ReportLab
- Using svg2pdf
- Wrapping Up
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Appendix B - Getting System Fonts
- The fontTools Package
- Getting the System’s Fonts
- Wrapping Up
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Appendix C - Creating a Color Demo
- Getting the Colors
- Wrapping Up
- Afterword and Thanks
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